Next meeting: January 2025 (date to be determined) 10-11am
Join by Zoom – details will be available closer to the meeting date.
Leadership:
Olivia Thomas, MS, RDN, LDN | Director of Nutrition Innovation and Implementation at Boston Medical Center (BMC) | |
Megan Sandel, MD | Professor of Pediatrics at BU & Professor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health (SPH); Research Focus: housing and child health | |
Synopsis 5′
research talks & networking
December 6, 2024
10:00am – 12:00pm
Thank you for joining us for brunch in L303 and on Zoom!
Outline:
Speaker 1: Olivia Thomas, MS, RD, LDN, PhD student
Background and the Food is Medicine Movement
Introduction to the Food and Nutrition Pre-ARC
Speaker 2: Stacey Zawacki, DrPH, RD, LD
Education Research
Speaker 3: Kareem King, BA
Community-Based Participatory Research
Speaker 4: Megan Sandel, MD
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/profile/megan-sandel/
Clinical Research
The mission and extended vision of this new Pre-ARC is to: catalyze research to promote equitable food access, systems, and policies in partnership with historically marginalized people and drive sustainable impact that safeguards local communities’ health, well-being, and prosperity.
Seeking: Interest in joining the leadership team, and particularly from the DoM; The group is meeting by Zoom every third Friday.
The group is actively seeking participants and speakers for a Synopsis 5’.
If you are interested in participating, please contact Olivia Thomas.
Current Core Group:
Kelsey Egan, MD, MSC | Research Focus: improving clinical-community integration in order to decrease inequities in health outcomes for children and families | |
Jessica Peters, RN, RD, LDN | Outpatient Nutrition Manager, BMC | |
Dani Brooks, MPH | Health Equity Research Manager | |
Richard Sheward, MPP | Director of System Implementation Strategies, Children’s HealthWatch Assistant Professor |
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Ana Poblacion, PhD, MSC | Research Focus: pediatric nutrition and ending food insecurity in households with children through the increase in access to healthy foods | |
Renee Boynton Jarrett, MD, ScD | Founding Director, Vital Village Community Engagement Network Associate Professor |
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Christina Gago, PhD, MPH | Research Focus: Food Security, Nutrition Assistance, Early Childhood Care & Education, Health Equity, Parenting, Health Behavior Interventions, Implementation Science | |
Rebecca Rudel, DrPH, MPH, RD | Implementation scientist and evaluator; Research Focus: the intersection between clinical care and public health | |
Norma Gonzalez, MPH | Focus: health equity and education equity for underserved populations | |
Current Advisors:
Pablo Buitron de la Vega | ||
Naomi Hamburg | ||
Ismail Samad | ||
Barbara Corkey | ||
Mallika Sabharwal | ||
Jonathan Berz | ||
David Opp | ||
Latchman Hiralall | ||